"For years I've tried my damnedest to get away from C. Too simple, too many details to manage, too old and crufty, too low level. I've had intense and torrid love affairs with Java, C++, and Erlang. I've built things I'm proud of with all of them, and yet each has broken my heart. They've made promises they couldn't keep, created cultures that focus on the wrong things, and made devastating tradeoffs that eventually make you suffer painfully. And I keep crawling back to C."

What are you talking about?! The STL and Boost are bloated and ugly; and worst of all they produce the most useless, verbose, garbage compile-time errors. (Admittedly the ugliness of those errors are partly due to C++'s template implementations, and STL and Boost are far and away the best set of libraries for C++)